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Re: Conclusive Evidence in The New Yorker (fwd)
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EDITOR's NOTE. "Maria E. Malikova" <masha@assisi.spb.su> is a
St.Petersburg Nabokov scholar and, inter alia, an editor of the splendid
collection _Nabokov: Pro et Contra_.
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> I'm writing an article about that last chapter of Conclusive Evidence >
recently published in the New Yorker (the main raison d'etre of the >
article being to include quotations from the ch. in Rus. transl) >
Personally, I'm rather bewildered by > this "Third Person" (i.e., by
Nabokov's switch from the first person voice of chapters 1-15 to third
person in chapter 16) and think that the author wanted either to >
hermetize his text from any outside interpretations or to make any > of
them ambivalent.
If anyone has thoughts on the matter, I would appreciate hearing from you.
> Yours sincerely, Masha Malikova
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St.Petersburg Nabokov scholar and, inter alia, an editor of the splendid
collection _Nabokov: Pro et Contra_.
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (15 lines) ------------
> I'm writing an article about that last chapter of Conclusive Evidence >
recently published in the New Yorker (the main raison d'etre of the >
article being to include quotations from the ch. in Rus. transl) >
Personally, I'm rather bewildered by > this "Third Person" (i.e., by
Nabokov's switch from the first person voice of chapters 1-15 to third
person in chapter 16) and think that the author wanted either to >
hermetize his text from any outside interpretations or to make any > of
them ambivalent.
If anyone has thoughts on the matter, I would appreciate hearing from you.
> Yours sincerely, Masha Malikova
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